NPR Commentator Andre Codrescu's Guide to Posthuman Living

Steve Scher
04/23/2009 at 9:00 a.m.

Do you rely on technology and your urban environment to survive? Look around you. Is there a car you depend on? Does your job require a computer? A cell phone? Would you be able to make it without the city you live in? According to the award–winning writer and NPR commentator Andrei Codrescu you might be posthuman rather than human. His new book uses the 20th century Dada art movement – and an imagined chess game between V.I. Lenin and Tristan Tzara – to construct a guide for 21st century posthuman living. Andre Codrescu joins us today on "Weekday."

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Andrei Codrescu is an award–winning writer and NPR commentator. He's the MacCurdy Distinguished Professor of English at Louisiana State University and author of many books including "Jealous Witness: New Poems and New Orleans," "Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writing from the City." His latest book is "The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara & Lenin Play Chess."